Microlivestock Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future (1991) / Chapter Skim
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Part II Poultry
Part II Poultry
Pages 73-78
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Although raised in all levels of husbandry, these birds occur most often in scattered household flocks that scavenge for their food and survive with little care or management. Their size bestows microlivestock advantages, including low capital cost, low food requirements, and little or no labor requirements.
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Most Third World poultry flocks live a wary, half-wild existence, scrounging for insects earthworms, snails, seeds, leaves, and leftovers from the human diet.
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Hybrids tailor-made for egg or meat production quickly ousted the old pure breeds such as the Rhode Island Red, White and Brown Leghoms, Light Sussex, and the venous crosses among them. Chicken broilers made by crosses involving parents derived from Cornish and Plymouth Rock have supplanted all others.
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Simply coating feeds with the virus seems to be enough to immunize some chickens, which then pass the immunity on to the others in the flock as well as to new hatchlings. In Malaysia, which has 49 million chickens and a population willing to pay a premium for tasty village poultry meat, one economist estimates that the vaccine might increase rural incomes by 25 percent.
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Most developing countries now have these intensive chicken industries, in which birds are kept in complete confinement. However, these commercial operations provide food for people in the cash economy, not for subsistence farmers.
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